Tales from Duty Finder: Some make you laugh, some make you cry. Let's vent.

[ArikDimas]

If both platforms on one side of the room get puddles on them, that entire side of the room is screwed.

What I'm getting out of your quote is "but mah deeps, I shouldn't have to move."

I'm going to have to move regardless of whether I'm standing on a platform or elsewhere in the arena(also being a machinist I'm given plenty of opportunities to move without messing up my rotation) and if both platforms on one side are gonna get puddles on them then you're given more than enough time to move around to the other set of platforms, even easier for melee players than ranged. But I'm guessing this is something we're not really gonna be able to see eye to eye on.

[Bernkastelx]

Fatty boom balatty boss combines the puddles and the big room aoe move somewhere after the second set of foobars spawn. Pretty sure he does it again not sure since it isn't going to wipe the raid regardless of two pads being covered. You can survive jumping on pad with puddles on it if healers are at least average, I have done it many times on melee classes. I don't know why people act like puddles are the main reason you wipe on that boss.

[Lyshell]

Angry healer rant incoming!

So still working on my first relic (snails pace I know lol) Doing A1. Healing partner dies twice, dps fail to kill adds at right spot or ignores them completely. I SOMEHOW keep the party alive enough for us to complete it.

0 Commendations.

I was livid! Really? 0 commendations!?!?! I'm not the type to beg for them but damn it 0 is just a slap in the face when I did nothing wrong. And it's a huge pet peeve of mine when DPS ignore mechanics! Yet if it wasn't for me we would have wiped. smfh.

I know it will happen so much more times spamming A1 but man ugh hate people!

/endrant.

[Slappah]

Went to test out my sexy new CPU in Void Ark
when suddenly
Error 90000! Constantly. I was rightfully kicked, it was awful.
Guess I do need an ethernet connection :'( Oh well, setting that up later today.

If there's one thing I've learned from my years of online gaming, it's that always go wired if possible

And if it isn't possible, make it possible

[FritoBandito]

Doing leveling roulette on my 30s ninja. It's Halatali. Tank D/C right away. Healer said I should tank, so I figure hey balls to the wall let's do this. I get in there and do my best, they do their best, and we no-tank it up to the first boss. Game crashes. I restart the PC, get the game going again and find they are still alive and have the first boss nearly defeated. I'm back just in time for the last couple hits. Great!

We no-tank through the second boss and finally a tank arrives for the last bit. Wish I could remember the names of those two casters in my group tho, because they both did great.

[Ashkendor]

If there's one thing I've learned from my years of online gaming, it's that always go wired if possible

And if it isn't possible, make it possible

Yep. After my awful experiences with wireless internet and wireless mouse/keyboard... never again. Not for gaming, anyway.

[Gilded]

About Cu Chu, I do avoid camping the platforms since I've experienced getting screwed over the nearest one because it had a puddle on it. Though while I ranged, I'm always near the boss anyway (I find it easier to move out of the Corrosive Bile range when I'm nearer, same with the tentacle slam, also Blank).

Recent DF runs have been good (had a couple of fast Arboretum runs wherein the Belladonna fight ended before the add phase, yay!), save for that one VA run in which we wiped because of -- as usual -- Cu Chu. Was among the last DPS standing in our pt, everyone kicks it at -- what, 1-2% boss HP left. People left, ranks replenished, and we gutted Cu Chu. Echidna went well. Got 3 comms, lol. I must have done something right.

Happened a few weeks back -- Arboretum run, had a PLD, WHM and a MNK (okay, not too sure with the tank and healer, but I'm kind of sure it was a MNK). Can't remember the earlier parts but it was a pretty slow run. The healer's not DPSing, the tank seems to be new, slow run overall but I'm not complaining. At the Belladonna fight, the MNK tried to help the tank with -- positioning the boss, I guess (for Atropine Spore so DPS/healer can get close to the boss without the minion circle?) but he died. Then he said something along the lines of "don't res me, it's not worth it".

I guess he expected that we'll wipe, but lol nope. Had to be one of the longest boss fights I've been in, used more Wildfire more times than I could count, but we 3-manned the whole thing until the end. No one else died. Admittedly the pt had to tank one of the add explosion/debuff every time they spawned and at one point I switched the MP turret on for a moment, but we finished. I'm not sure if the healer did try to res the other DPS at some point, or if they pitched in the DPS effort, but hey, the tank and I survived.

At the end of runs I usually thank everyone (unless it was terribad and people were asses...or you know, I was slow). I thanked the healer and the tank, and went on my merry way.

[AskaRay]

Yep just hooked up my ethernet.... so much better.
Also apparently my router reset itself at some point, I had to reforward all my ports :T uuugh

[Vele]

0 Commendations.

I've learned long ago that the harder you have to work, the less likely you'll get comms. It's a sad and frustrating truth. (This means, as a sch df'ing a1n for my own relics, I got a lot of comms for not going out of cleric ever... of course this also means I got none when everything went to hell due to stupid deaths and/or failed mechanics and I had to toss out heals and raises everywhere.)

If there's one thing I've learned from my years of online gaming, it's that always go wired if possible

For sure. Before I had this awesome PC, I played wireless on a laptop, because it was all I had. Never again. It was so bad that the microwave messed with my connection whenever it was in use. Everyone I explained that to would say I was making stuff up because that's crazy, there's no way that's possible, the microwave, really? I googled it, it's definitely possible if your router's signal is a certain frequency, otherwise you tell me why my internet connection breaks whenever someone's warming up their dinner, and it would magically come back when they were done.

[enthauptet]

Microwaves are the enemy when dealing with wifi.